Fifteen years before he became one of TV's most successful writers (The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie) and a quarter century before he began churning out bestselling novels, Sidney Sheldon won an Academy Award for his original screenplay of this 1947 light comedy. Through a quirk of judicial license, Cary Grant's playboy writer is "sentenced" to date a 17-year-old schoolgirl (Shirley Temple) until she grows out of her crush for the aging bachelor. Grant's gift for slapstick and willingness to play the fool—embracing teenage fads and spouting bobby-soxer slang—turns a contrived comedy into a giddy affair.